It was obviously excellent news when it was announced that the Day Z mod would be getting an official release as a stand alone game. So how’s the conversion process coming along? Well, the Day Z team has posted an update showing off the progress of their still work-in-progress game. As you’ll see, it’s not entirely different from what we’ve already played. About that, the Day Z team said:

“Please note these are work-in-progress shots, with only basic texture work and initial lighting passes. I picked a random town in the game and took screenshots of a few of the houses. The screenshots are taken on “Normal” graphic settings (medium texture resolution) and are unaltered and uncropped.

Our artists have been very busy, methodically going through all buildings in Chernarus and adding interiors. The task can be pretty difficult, when the buildings were made, interiors were not considered so it can be a challenge for the artists to make the interiors both look correct and work properly.”

“This is complicated by our desire to dramatically increase performance, and given the scene complexity inside cities we need to balance this with the desire to increase building scavenging opportunities inside the cities.”